"La torta"

Translation: The cake

[pulce.flo]

it is not: "la tortà"
the correct pronunciation is on the "o": la toorta

[mln98]

In the Italian language there is a tonic syllable in every word. [ALWAYS]

Tonic syllable means more stress. =>

La torta
Il ragazzo
Il camariere
L'animale
Ciotola
L'acqua
Il forma*ggio

[Jay5246]

So is it cake or pie?

[MayAstrid]

If you search images of torta in google, you have cakes, but I prefer pie...

[sebifire24]

pie is more "crostata"

[benton.1]

"Crostata" was listed as a "tart", which is kind of like an opened faced pie.

[benton.1]

My dictionary translates both "cake" and "pie" as "torta".

[lorenagay]

La TORta. Not la torTA. Also, no real word for pie in Italy...they may call them other things, but they don't make pie, as such, there.

[susan0408]

Ha ha ha☺ I am Hungarian and torta is torta in Hungarian. It is the same.

[Superuncia]

Turkish has the same word too. "Turta" means pie in there.

[MartaOnMars]

I was wondering the same but I checked the pronunciation and, as Pulce said, the stress falls on the first syllable.

[Winter_Relapse]

she says it so...sassily.

[AzulS1373]

Yo, la Mexico-Americana, quiero mi torta de jamón. :D

[Sebby_Pal]

in Australia there is a shop called latorta which sells wedding cakes

[AntonellaP654393]

Torta in spanish is torta

[animalover12345]

Words like "la" and "il" come before masculine and feminine nouns, but what about nouns that aren't masculine or feminine?

[BrunoZoldan]

In Italian and in the Romance languages there is only two gender, the greatest part of the ancient Latin neuter has got masculine (ending -o) and the other one are become feminine (they take the ending-a).
The English don't have the genders, they are disntinguished only in the third singular persons by the personel pronouns and by the possesive adjectives from they derived.

[mizinamo]

All nouns in Italian are either masculine or feminine. There is no neuter gender for nouns (like in Latin) any more.

[Amina_sub]

In libya we say Torta too :o I didn't thought for a second that it's an italian word omg!

[kaitlyn1213]

Hi everyone!

I am new to Italian and would like to go to Italy with my family.
But I feel I have to know the language in order to go. I check out the comments for the questions every day to look for help with the Italian language.

It would mean SO much if you guys could post some passages to help me out.

One last thing: please follow me on Duolingo!

Thank you so much.

Have a great day!

[SomethingSomethn]

I came here to learn Italian not to be hungry

[deactivated user]

Would "The tart" be acceptable?

[Emily86062]

I can't roll my r's in general. Any suggestions as to how to get round this?

[Eileen681601]

I have a hearing problem and I find it extremely difficult to understand so many words as the audio through the computer is not optimal!!!

[benton.1]

Would headphones help?

[Eileen681601]

I know the word "torta" but it is distorted via the computer.

[benton.1]

I cannot access the voice on the original question, but the female voice at the top of this page sounds perfectly fine. Is there a different voice in the exercise?

[ZCficT]

You should say torta without ò accented...because you pronounced it TÒRTA that means...Winding of an object on itself, with a spiral movement.

[EbruGler10]

When I tap "Can't listen now" you say it is wrong????!!!